Ya want bad com edy or football? Today at 4:15 you might get a little of both. Fox has Vikings-Packers here. Maybe. The way Fox is promoting it we may just see snippets of it, when Brett Favre is in.

Games played by Brett Favre, as presented by the NFL’s TV networks, the last 10 years, hold the promise of farce. He brings out the silly in TV. And Fox has issued a warning, of sorts, that those wishing to see the Vikings play the Packers, well . . .

For starters, Fox will have a “Favre-Cam,” one that, Fox promises, “will follow every move of No. 4’s return to the Frozen Tundra.”

Nooooo!

Read the rest of Fox’s media release, along with me: “With all the hype surrounding Brett Favre’s return to the place he called home for so many years, it’s fair to assume fans attending the game will have their eyes glued on him from the moment he runs out of the visitor’s locker room and takes the field for warm ups to the last second of this highly anticipated ‘homecoming.’

“FOX gives fans watching at home the same opportunity. A camera stationed high on the 50-yard line will be isolated on Favre from the second he takes the field against his former team until the moment he runs back into the locker room.”

Is that a come-on or a threat?

And, as the late Billy Mays hollered, “But wait! There’s more!”

For those who prefer to watch Favre watch the game — or look down at his shoes — “A constant video stream of this select angle is available to fans by logging on to FOXSports.com and NFL.com.”

That’s right, when not watching Favre on Fox TV, you may want to catch Favre on your laptop.

There’s kill, there’s overkill, and next comes what TV does to big football games. No doubt there will be stacks of misleading, misinterpreted, misapplied and otherwise useless Favre stats to both read and obstruct the view. And to drive you nuts.

TV long has encouraged us to think of Favre not as a quarterback, but as a starting pitcher. Thus, we can anticipate the reprise of one of TV’s favorite Favre show-and-tell stats: those informing us that Brett Favre is a good quarterback in games played outdoors, not so a good one when playing beneath a dome.

Of course, as real football fans know, domes have nothing to do with it. Favre played 17 years for outdoor home teams. And all teams, the last, oh, 100 years — with the exception of the Harlem Globetrotters — find winning on the road more difficult than winning at home.

Three weeks ago during a Vikings home win against the Packers on Monday night, ESPN came armed with three, full-screen graphics, set to music and loaded with numbers that concluded with this stunning info: Favre’s just 23-24 in domes! That’s hardly a bad road record, but in ESPN’s hands, two-plus-two is division multiplied by the square route of the lowest common thermometer. Hike!

First-season analyst Jon Gruden, bless his heart, tried to debunk the bunk: “He played 16 years in Green Bay, outside. So the only domed stadiums he played in were on the road. It’s hard to win on the road.”

Save it, Coach. We know that. Tell ESPN.

Favre’s Vikings won that game — he now plays his home games in a dome — bringing his indoor record to 24-24.

Last week, outdoors in Pittsburgh, the Vikings lost their first game of the season. Uh-oh. If that keeps up we will soon be told that Favre is now having trouble winning games played outdoors.

Everyone covering last week’s Jets-Raiders knew at roughly the same moment that Leon Washington‘s leg had been broken and that he would be out for the year. Did that stop ESPN from taking credit for that news? No.

There are too many good people working at ESPN and watching ESPN for the network’s shot-callers to continually compromise the integrity and dignity of both parties. Beyond that, simply reporting stories — no bogus, self-inflating claims — wouldn’t cost ESPN a cent.

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A bunch of readers have asked how singer Ronan Tynan can be booted from Yankee Stadium for making an anti-Semitic remark in private, one for which he apologized, yet days later singer Jay-Z, who in public calls black men “n – – – – – s” and degrades women as “bitches,” performs before a World Series game in Yankee Stadium. Good question. Ask Bud Selig.

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